THE 1930 FLYING SCANDAL.
To the Editor of "The Wireless News." 1st June, 1930.
Dear Sir,—I wish to protest through your columns against the outrageous behaviour of the drivers of public air conveyances on the Brighton Front.
Yesterday I and other passengers boarded a ramshackle aero-à-banc (the floor of which was covered with musty straw) with the intention of having a "joy-trip" to Rottingdean. The fare was two shillings and sixpence. We had not mounted five hundred feet into the air before the driver yelled to us, "Nah then, another 'arf-a-chrahn all rahnd or I'll loop the loop." We were forced to comply with the demand of this highwayman of the atmospheric thoroughfares; but on alighting I took the first opportunity of giving his number to a policeman.
One sighs for the old-fashioned courtesy of the taxi-cab driver of another decade.
Yours, etc., CONSTANT READER.
Commercial Altruism.
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